Portland State University | College of the Arts Winter 2024 Events

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Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) Event continues on multiple dates.

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Events may be subject to change. Please check pdx.edu/arts for updates on specific events before attending.

“Art is the highest form of hope,” wrote artist Gerhard Richter. To pursue a degree, or a career, in the arts is to believe in the value of our shared humanity, and invest in our shared future, despite the upheaval in the world around us. To create a work of art is to say, “I believe.”

Here in the College of the Arts, we nurture, cherish, and practice this belief every day, in a multitude of ways, and I am always eager to share the results of these acts of hope with you, our community.

Despite the darkness of these winter months, our vibrant calendar is a testament to the hopeful light burning bright in our corner of Portland. The coming months will bring a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure,” the continuation of the PSU Choirs’ transformative season of choral concerts, the next conversation in our yearlong series “The Arts at the Vanguard of Change,” an exhibition of this year’s winners of the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize, and dozens more arts offerings.

I invite you to join us at one (or more!) of these events, and embrace hope this winter season.

All the best,

Leroy E. Bynum, Jr. Dean, College of the Arts Portland State University

On the cover: PSU Orchestra and conductor Ken Selden extend a special Valentine to music lovers with a program of beloved selections from the pop and classical worlds.

See page 7.

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Deinum Prize Showcase Exhibition: The Alphabet of Black Creatives—Deinum Prize winner Nia Musiba highlights the work of Black creatives around the Pacific Northwest through interviews, events, and workshops. Runs through March 2.

A+D | ALL DAY | FREE BROADWAY GALLERY

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Portland Piano International: Filippo Gorini—Pianist Filippo Gorini plays Alban Berg, Schubert, and Beethoven.

CP | 4:00 PM | $45-$55; $10-$20 WITH PSU ID LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL

2024 Portland Jewish Film Festival—The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education presents a six-day film festival featuring new full-length films and selected shorts that explore the complexity, history, and joy of Jewish life. A talk-back session with authors, filmmakers, scholars, and artists follows each film. Runs through January 14.

CP | TIMES VARY | $10-$55 LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL

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Noon Concert: George Colligan Trio with Surprise Guest— Jazz pianist and composer George Colligan will perform original jazz works with a trio of up-and-coming musicians Robert Rodriguez (bass) and Dae Bryant (drums), plus an internationally renowned surprise guest artist.

M&T | NOON | FREE LINCOLN RECITAL HALL

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Artist’s Talk: karen glass \ no bias See page 3.

A+D | 10:30 AM | FREE ZOOM

Labor of Love—“Labor of Love” is an exhibition featuring eight artists whose work aims to expose and highlight labor practices that have been historically and systematically concealed from the public sphere. Runs through April 27.

JSMA | TIMES VARY | FREE JORDAN SCHNIT ZER MUSEUM OF ART

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Noon Concert: Bora Yoon—Korean-American composer, vocalist, and electroacoustic sound artist Bora Yoon presents excerpts of “( (( PHONATION )) )”— a program of soundscapes using digital devices, voice, and instruments from a variety of cultures and historical centuries to tell a story through music, movement, and sound.

M&T | NOON | FREE LINCOLN RECITAL HALL

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ARTIST ’S TALKS

JANUARY 16, 30, FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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LEF T TO RIGHT: IMAGES COURTESY OF KAREN GL A SS , OPHIR EL-B OHER , AND HOPE WANG .

Weaving community: PSU’s Textile Arts program hosts a series of online conversations with artists exploring the impacts of community engagement, environmental responsibility, and conscientious practices in the field of textiles, from apparel to weaving.

Pennsylvania-based artist karen glass (January 16; see page 2) has crafted a lifelong career in the global apparel business. With the founding of Ø GLASS, she has aimed to disrupt the fashion industry by designing and making clothing through a socially conscious, zero-waste approach, partnering with groups that seek to lift up marginalized individuals.

Artist Ophir El-Boher (January 30; see page 4) explores the ecological and cultural aspects of hyper-consumerism.

Through participatory art and educational work, exhibitions, and public talks, El-Boher seeks to activate consumers to reclaim material culture and increase awareness of the problem of textile waste.

Chicago-based artist Hope Wang (February 6; see page 5) joins Shelley Socolofsky’s Weaving: Pattern and Structure class to discuss her work with LMRM (“loom room”), a community weaving studio working to broaden accessibility to @PSU _ ARTS weaving equipment for artists in Chicago.

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Labor of Love Panel Discussion & Reception—Panel discussion with “Labor of Love” featured artists Tannaz Farsi, Midori Hirose, and Charlene Liu, moderated by exhibition curator Alexandra Terry of the New Mexico Museum of Art. JSMA | 4:00 PM | FREE JORDAN SCHNIT ZER MUSEUM OF ART

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PSU Opera Scholarship Competition—PSU Voice students, competing for the Richard Helzer Opera Scholarship and David Jimerson Endowed Vocal Scholarship, perform before a panel of judges including Susan McBerry, University of Portland; Karen Esquivel, University of Oregon Opera director; and Nicholas Fox, head coach at Portland Opera.

M&T | 2 :00 PM | FREE LINCOLN RECITAL HALL

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Friends of Chamber Music: Telegraph Quartet—Grand prize winner of the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and recipient of the 2016 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, the Telegraph Quartet is known for its “soulfulness, tonal beauty and intelligent attention to detail” (San Francisco Chronicle).

Additional performance on January 23.

CP | 7:30 PM | $32-$59 LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL

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Show + Tell Graphic Design Lecture Series—At the PSU Graphic Design program’s online lunchtime lecture series, design professionals share wisdom on current topics in design.

A+D | NOON | FREE ZOOM

Noon Concert: PSU Orchestra—PSU Orchestra performs selections at this lunchtime concert.

M&T | NOON | FREE LINCOLN RECITAL HALL

White Bird: LED: Kid Lightning—LED founders Lauren Edson and Andrew Stensaas, with a team of dancers, musicians, designers, and technicians, created Kid Lightning, a wild journey into the 1970s stylized world of game show competition.

Contestants push their limits to claim fame, only to discover it was more than they bargained for.

Additional performances through January 27.

CP | TIMES VARY | $12-$49 LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL

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Artist’s Talk: Ophir El-Boher See page 3.

A+D | 11:00 AM | FREE ZOOM

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Show + Tell Graphic Design Lecture Series See January 25.

A+D | NOON | FREE ZOOM

Noon Concert: Rose City Trio—Sarah Kwak (violin), Nancy Ives (cello), and Susan Chan (piano) perform works by Max Bruch, Chen Yi, and Gabriel Fauré.

M&T | NOON | FREE LINCOLN RECITAL HALL

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Labor of Love Exhibition Tour—Public tour of “Labor of Love” exhibition led by JSMA staff. ASL interpreting provided.

JSMA | 1:00 PM | FREE JORDAN SCHNIT ZER MUSEUM OF ART

Portland Piano International: Michelle Cann—Michelle Cann, pianist, performs a program entitled “The Women of Chicago’s Black Renaissance,” featuring works by Florence Price, Betty Jackson King, and others.

CP | 4:00 PM | $45-$55; $10-$20 WITH PSU ID LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL

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Friends of Chamber Music: Jennifer Johnson Cano & Christopher Cano—Vocal performance by mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, whose singing has been called “electric” and “impressive” by Opera News. Accompanied by Christopher Cano.

CP | 7:30 PM | $32-$59 LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL

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Artist’s Talk: Hope Wang See page 3.

A+D | 6:00 PM | FREE ZOOM

Show + Tell Graphic Design Lecture Series See January 25.

A+D | NOON | FREE ZOOM

Noon Concert: Love, Death, Ambition, Power, Fate, Free Will: Shakespearean Sonnets in Song See page 8.

M&T | NOON | FREE LINCOLN RECITAL HALL

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BELOW: B Y MOHABB AT K HATIBNIAMANSOURI

B Y A SHLE Y YANG-THOMPSON

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State of the art: With this annual exhibition, the School of Art + Design celebrates the work of the 2023 Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize recipients Ashley Yang-Thompson (MFA candidate in Studio Practice), Ash Kukuzke (BFA candidate in Graphic Design), and Mohabbat Khatibnia-Mansouri (BFA Art Practice, ‘23).

Ashley Yang-Thompson creates colorful signposts that honor the reality of our interior lives, asking, “What if signs pointed towards the heart that is always breaking, the self that is perpetually shapeshifting, and the overwhelming questions that govern our inner lives?”

Through analog and digital means, Ash Kukuzke’s work explores her experience with aphantasia—an enigmatic condition characterized by the absence of mental imagery—and its effects on memory, nostalgia, and grief.

Mohabbat Khatibnia-Mansouri uses tools within sculpture and social science as a vehicle for participatory installations.

The exhibition runs February 27 through April 27. See page 7.

COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

ARLENE SCHNITZER VISUAL ARTS PRIZE E XHIBITION

LEF T: B Y A SH KUKUZK E

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PSU Orchestra Valentine Celebration—PSU Orchestra and conductor Ken Selden perform the music of Takemitsu, Chopin, Rossini, Clara Schumann, and the Mamas & The Papas, with special guest performances by School of Music & Theater faculty members Li Kuang and Chuck Dillard.

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The Arts at the Vanguard of Change: Intersectional Experiments— At this brown-bag conversation held by the College of the Arts, Chuck Dillard (School of Music & Theater faculty) and ariella tai (School of Film faculty) discuss the innovative ways in which they incorporate intersectionality into their curricula, teaching, and practice.

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Show + Tell Graphic Design Lecture Series See January 25.

A+D | NOON | FREE ZOOM

Noon Concert: Love Across Cultures—Performances by the PSU Choirs, Sonic Arts and Music Production program, and more.

This event is a joint presentation of the School of Music & Theater Racial Justice Task Force and Noon Concert Series.

M&T | NOON | FREE LINCOLN RECITAL HALL

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Winterreise Portland—Join PSU faculty Harry Baechtel (baritone) and Chuck Dillard (piano) for a multimedia performance of Franz Schubert’s late, tragic masterpiece Winterreise, featuring black and white images of Portland by photographer So-Min Kang.

M&T | 7:00 PM | $20; FREE WITH PSU ID LINCOLN RECITAL HALL

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Show + Tell Graphic Design Lecture Series See January 25.

A+D | NOON | FREE ZOOM

Noon Concert: Sherry Alves and Christopher Woitach— Sherry Alves (Jazz Voice faculty) and Christopher Woitach explore jazz and popular songs with open interpretation, bringing unpredictability and playfulness to every performance.

M&T | NOON | FREE LINCOLN RECITAL HALL

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Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize 2023 Exhibition See page 6. Runs through April 27.

A+D | TIMES VARY | FREE JORDAN SCHNIT ZER MUSEUM OF ART

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Show + Tell Graphic Design Lecture Series See January 25.

A+D | NOON | FREE ZOOM

Noon Concert: Crazy Jane Composers—Chamber music and songs by PSU composers Renée Favand-See, Lisa Marsh, and Bonnie Miksch with performances by guest artists.

M&T | NOON | FREE LINCOLN RECITAL HALL

Measure for Measure See above. Additional performance on March 9.

M&T | TIMES VARY | $6-$20; FREE FOR PSU STUDENTS WITH ID LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL

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SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST FOLIO

All the world’s a stage: The College of the Arts joins the citywide Shakespeare’s First Folio: 1623-2023 initiative to investigate William Shakespeare’s wide-ranging impact on our arts and culture.

On Thursday, February 8, PSU School of Music Professor Darrell Grant presents “Love, Death, Ambition, Power, Fate, Free Will: Shakespearean Sonnets in Song,” a musical encounter with Shakespeare’s written text featuring faculty and student composers and performers transporting 400-year-old language into modern contexts and styles. See page 5.

Theater professor Karin Magaldi directs Aditi Brennan Kapil’s translation of Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure,” which examines and warns against the corrupting influence of power, even among the most virtuous of individuals. Kapil’s translation upholds the play’s construction, concepts, and rhythms with modern language that brings the tale to life for 21st-century audiences. Presented in partnership with Play On Shakespeare.

Runs Thursday, February 29 through March 9 (opening night Friday, March 1). See below.

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PSU Choirs Present: Golden—Continuing the 2023–2024 season, “From Dust to Dawn,” Portland State University’s Chamber Choir, Rose Choir, and Thorn Choir perform highlights from Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” in honor of the great composer’s 125th birthday. Additional performance on March 3.

M&T | TIMES VARY | $7-$15 PORTL AND FIRST UNITED ME THODIST CHURCH

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Labor of Love Exhibition Tour—Public tour of “Labor of Love” exhibition led by JSMA staff. ASL interpreting provided.

JSMA | 1:00 PM | FREE JORDAN SCHNIT ZER MUSEUM OF ART

Jazz Combo Nights—The student Jazz Area Combos perform jazz and contemporary music arranged or composed for their ensemble peers, under the direction of Darrell Grant, Sherry Alves, Owen Broder, George Colligan, Todd Marston, and Ben Medler. Additional performance on March 5.

M&T | 7:00 PM | FREE VARIOUS LOCATIONS

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Build Again—The Portland State University Choirs, Community Chorus, and guest artists present a mix of classical greats and pop hits as well as a community sing in celebration of Music in Our Schools month. This event is part of the PSU Social Justice Choirs initiative under the direction of Coty Raven Morris.

M&T | 7:30 PM | SUGGESTED DONATION FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH

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PSU Percussion Ensemble Winter Concert—The PSU Percussion Ensemble performs works for chamber percussion by Andy Akiho, Bob Becker, Christopher Cerrone, Daniel Levitan, John Psathas, Darrien Spicak, and more.

M&T | 7:30 PM | FREE LINCOLN RECITAL HALL

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Show + Tell Graphic Design Lecture Series See January 25.

A+D | NOON | FREE ZOOM

Noon Concert: Hamilton Cheifetz and Julia Hwakyu Lee—Nine poetic and evocative works for cello and piano, performed by Hamilton Cheifetz and Julia Hwakyu Lee. M&T | NOON | FREE LINCOLN RECITAL HALL

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Translational Environments—A group exhibition of multimedia installations made in ART 355: Video Installation. The exhibition is the culmination of a course that combines artwork and video with three-dimensional elements such as sculpture, projection, performance, sound, and site-specific installation and environments.

Opening reception March 7, 5 to 8 p.m. Runs through March 20.

A+D | TIMES VARY | FREE MK AND AB GALLERIES

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PSU Chamber Choir Hosts the Yale Glee Club—Yale’s principal undergraduate mixed chorus and its oldest musical organization joins PSU’s award-winning Chamber Choir in this concert.

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PSU Vocal Collective—PSU Vocal Collective presents their winter concert.

M&T | 7:00 PM | $8-$12 ; FREE WITH PSU ID LOCATION TBA

Unfamiliar Territory—PSU Wind Symphony performs selections for wind in their winter concert.

M&T | 7:00 PM | $5-$10; FREE WITH PSU ID LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL

Noon Concert: New Sounds – A Music Exploration for Trombone and Electronics—PSU Trombone Studio, with Professor Li Kuang, performs music written for the trombone and electronic devices such as loop station pedals and PA systems.

M&T | NOON | FREE LINCOLN RECITAL HALL

Diamond Tide—PSU’s University Band presents its winter term concert.

M&T | 7:00 PM | $5-$10; FREE WITH PSU ID LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL

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Allison Miller with the PSU Jazz Band—Allison Miller, an internationally known jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader, joins the PSU Jazz Band onstage. Miller has toured with Ani DiFranco, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Natalie Merchant, and her group Artemis recently won “Best Jazz Group” in the DownBeat magazine reader’s poll.

M&T | 7:00 PM | $5-$25 LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL

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Friends of Chamber Music: Neave Trio—“Neave” is a Gaelic name meaning “bright” and “radiant.” Since forming in 2010, the Neave Trio has earned praise for its engaging, cutting-edge performances. Additional performance on March 19.

CP | 7:30 PM | $32-$59 LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL

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GIVE TODAY YOUR GIF T MAKES A DIFFERENCE

“This scholarship has allowed me to pursue my dual musical passions without undue financial burden and to keep my primary focus on my studies and my music. I am incredibly, eternally grateful.”

—2023–2024 scholarship recipient, pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and Composition, College of the Arts, Class of 2024

SUPPORT THE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

Thanks to the generosity of friends like you, our students and faculty in the College of the Arts (COTA) are able to turn their aspirations into reality, developing the skills and portfolio of work to be creative leaders in an ever-evolving world. Your gift to COTA scholarships, faculty research and initiatives, and programs will ensure PSU continues to develop the next generation of artists and offer a vibrant creative community.

Contact Kailin Mooney, Director of Development for PSU Arts, at mooneyk@psuf.org or 503.725.5031 for more information.

To make a gift, visit giving.psuf.org/give-cota

LE T K NOWLEDGE SERVE THE CIT Y :

Architecture student proposes a redesign for the Burnside Bridge (2018).

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Broadway Gallery—Ground Floor

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TICKETS, PARKING & SAFET Y Tickets—Purchase tickets through the University Box Office at pdx.edu/boxoffice or 503.725.3305.

Parking at Lincoln Hall—The nearest parking is in PSU Parking Structure 2 (SW Broadway and Mill) Parking Rates Mon–Sat—$5 after 5 p.m.

Sat—$7 all day

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Sun—$5 all day Metered street parking is also available.

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Health and Safety—Events at Portland State University follow health and safety protocol as set by local, state and federal health officials. Please check pdx.edu/arts for updates on specific events before attending.

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